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Try a pair of motoX ergonomic knee braces for your dodgy knees mate! They're the bee's knees for me! Fifty five n still alive, climbin every other blue moon! Reinforce your weak points and motor on mates! Jomoco

What's the smooth barked one in the middle Mario? Dead? Awe inspiring pics mate, as usual. Jomoco

These leather tube cambium savers are very tree friendly, and just as stout as your rope!

How about very old blunt impact trauma? Like some saw totin dude dropped a tree trunk on that root crown? CSI Yorkshire? Jomoco

Here's the size of the hole they make in dead euc. Hole on the left from ELB, hole on right's from my Innoculators.

A better view of me "Innoculators."

The pole gaff version when retracted's only 1.75 inches long. But fully extended it's 2.25 inches long. Kinda like a cat extending his sharp claws.

It's the difference between a dog's ability to climb trees(static) and that of a cat(dynamic). Those springs retract the inner 3/8ths inch needles from the fully extended mode when all your weight's applied and that needle's driven in a half deeper than outer tube that's static. They do make a pleasant jangling noise like an old cowboy's spurs come to think of it! That jingle jangle jingle. Seriously, I designed those gaffs specifically for penetrating petrified deadwood trees. The kind yu don't wanna shake too much by stomping round like Godzilla trying tu get your gaffs to set properly!

My apologies guys, finally punched in the proper dimens of 40 at the bottom, 28 at the top by 32 feet came to 7066 lbs for a cottonwood. What a dope! Jomoco

So I run the yellow poplar app at 40 inches by 32 feet and still get 10,624 lbs or 5.25 tons. That's a heavy log. Thanks for the correction mate. Jomoco

Oops, yellow poplar at a five foot dia for only 16 feet up weighs in at 12000 lbs or six tons, So yeah could be real heavy pick with a crane. Jomoco

I got 544kg from the bartlett app for iPads, or 1200 lbs. 32 feet at 12 inches dia. Yellow poplar. Jomoco

There's a children's book bout some dude in northern Canada, that felled 3 trees rigged together to yank a bulldozer out of a lake, as it had been abandoned by the company that had driven out onto the ice in winter, and lost it. Title of the book was "The Bulldozer" I think? Now that's a bit of riggin eh? Might have even been a true story! Jomoco

I put a bit more thought into my home made gaffs.

I agree with you mate. Other than pulling and keeping at close hand my saws spark arrestors? I leave em alone and they perform good enough for me, provided of course you're runnin 100 octane racin fuel and Stihl's silver bottled synthetic! Seriously, I've been on state forestry contracts after fires and beetle outbreaks, and the white van with dark tinted windows stops on the jobsite, and out pops a state compliance officer demanding to see each saw you're usin on that site's spark arrestor. Those without had to get their saws off the job site or have them confiscated along with a hefty fine. And yes, hot mufflers start fires easily when the muffler makes contact with the bark of some dead tree species, like melaleuca, and boxwoods like leptospurman. All my saws are stock minus the arrestors, and lasted over ten plus years excluding the ms200T's, which were brutalized into early deaths without exception, all four of em! In truth the scariest saw in my mind's the Stihl 44magnum. I've known too many guys who've cut themselves in the legs badly by letting that kinda power get away from them while cutting the straps on a rolled over log usin the top of the bar. Push back, into their legs, very nasty. I'm a little guy who uses the smallest saw I can get away wit, up to bout 28 inches! Which is why my 14 inch 200's all die premature deaths! Not top end or low end failures mind you. It's the bloody mufflers rattlin off so many times the threads in the pot let go. Or maybe I'm crazy cuz no one else but me whines about it happenin to them too! [ame] [/ame] Not familiar with the newfangled computer controlled saws, so they may well need help. Jomoco

Lots of folks take heed of science in this industry mate. Some even have an outrageous notion to actually be guided and informed by it! This by a local German entomology expert mind you. http://www.kerbtier.de/cgi-bin/enFeature.cgi The 4.1 to 5.5 mm large European spruce bark beetle Ips typographus (family Scolytidae) is one of five species of the genus in Germany. It is known to occur in Europe, Asia Minor, Siberia and in the Far East. In the North it reaches Lapland. As a serious pest they infest mainly spruce (Picea), but also larch (Larix), pine (Pinus) and fir (Abies). The beetles are attracted to vulnerable hosts and communicate with pheromones, so that more beetles are attracted to the already attacked host. The beetles burrow through the weakened bark in order to build tunnels where they mate and lay eggs. Under favorable weather conditions, the development cycle takes six weeks. With three generations per year outbreaks are possible. Prevention and control is done by removing infested and surrounding at-risk trees from the forest. (CB) End quote. So our monoculture now includes Larch, Pine and Fir susceptible to the Ips beetle as well. Are you sure you never seen one of these little buggers about?

One of the many reasons I believe future arborists will primarily use pneumatic cutting tools. And yes, they make pneumatic hedge trimmers. Pneumatic equipments | Alawneh Agriculture Est. Very light chainsaws n loppers too. [ame] [/ame] Jomoco

Just for you TreeQuip. http://www.ufz.de/export/data/1/49310_lausch_Ecol_Indic_2013_org.pdf Jomoco

I get it mate, no beetle flight season in Germany? If you say so... Jomoco:biggrin:

Experience taught me there's a few folks in my client base that know a lot more about trees, horticulture, entomology and mycology than I do. That these folks are affiliated with the heads of city and state agencies, universities and townhalls. These folks do take note of which company pruned mr so n so's trees in July, that later died. Sometimes walkin the walk costs you money in certain months of the year. These are good months for building up a firewood supply, processing it, vacationing, yearly maintenance n such. Word gets around bout who delivers sound advice n service dependably, and who doesn't. Jomoco

Sounds an interesting place, Corfe Castle does. William the Conquerer 11th century eh? Corfe Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Super pics Sean! Spectacular even! Thanks for sharin em mate. Jomoco

I do, along with a lot of other pros with doctorates n stuff. Timing of pruning is important; avoid creating fresh pruning wounds during the adult beetles’ flight sea- son. Do not prune elm trees from March to September or pines during February to mid-October. Do not pile unseasoned, freshly cut wood near woody landscape plants. From: http://ucanr.edu/sites/sjcoeh/files/77067.pdf Jomoco

I guess it all kinda boils down to who you believe tells the unvarnished truth, don't it? Snowden? Obama/Clapper? Was the Vietnam war initiated under false pretenses by the pentagon? Funny how the same "stay the course" battle plea of the neocons, keeps being answered in the affirmative by the so called democrats, who faithfully toe the neocon line? Is the newly reincarnated BlackWater Group currently active in the Ukraine? Dejavu all over again mate! Jomoco

Touché mate! The wise discerning eye! Jomoco:001_smile: